My big ask is that Howard got a hold of this incredible material, a once-in-a-lifetime find, and is just, “I’ll make a shield from it and leave it casually on this table.”

While I like it, Thor (and to an extent Captain America: First Avenger) is Marvel eating their vegetables before having their dessert (which is The Avengers). They knew the groundwork had to be laid down, so they dutifully did it, confident in the pay-off the following year.  Which is definitely the lesson every other…

I mean, have you tried re-watching The Crow?

The next time we see him, he’s in the Avengers without any explanation or even a line of dialogue about how that happened.

“It’s a new drug called ‘Jon Snow’.  Kids take it, and then they know nothing.”

For real. If only we knew how Howard Stark learned about unique metals not otherwise known by science. It’s a huge mystery.

“Howard Stark invented a new element and drafted it onto the floor plan of a state fair for his kid to find some day”

“The kids call it ‘going Daenyrs’.  They sit in a bonfire and see who becomes a dragon.”

And both Watsons are in the MCU as well.

Surely you wouldn’t make this comment.

TELL ME THIS IS APRIL FOOLS, BRITT.

I liked that it had a form of time travel that was deeply inconvenient and labor intensive.  But I think it fell completely apart in the last fifteen minutes or so.

I mean, its big name producer is the director of Piranha 2.

See, I had the opposite feeling— I felt like the airport was originally supposed to be in, like, New Jersey (thus things like Tony popping over to Queens for Pete and Hawkeye driving Wanda and Scott out all make sense), but then they realized the whole plot with Cap breaking the Accords for Bucky’s sake only makes…

The thing is, I really think there was a brilliant kernel of an idea that Bruce and Clark both have mothers named Martha, and that could be the thing that helps them start to find a common ground.  That idea was horribly executed, though.

Here’s a question for you: In a world with superheroes in it, are superheroes movies a genre?  Or are they just, you know, biopics?

It’s the only one where Bruce/Batman has something resembling a plot arc, as opposed to just being the the deus ex machina of the other things happening.

The weighed trashcan is also to prevent workers from, say, writing up a ton of fries and sandwiches as “customer complaints” when really they were giving friends free food.

I liked her plenty in DOFP, and I liked how they used her, storywise.  But in Apocalypse, setting her up as the “Both Charles and Erik are out of commission, so I have to step up as leader” did not work.

I was thinking the other day about how the past twenty years has only had two or three Best Picture winners that I would even see a second time.